"The Simpsons" are your for real? That show has been hit and miss for the last 8 years or so. It holds its viewership today because its more of an Institution then anything else. Honestly "The Simpsions" deliver some great stuff even today but its few and far between. It was much more inteligent in pre 2000 or there abouts then it is today. Mostly its the same tired jokes over and over again now, with names replace with whatever is popular this week, often these jokes don't even really fit anymore.
I still watch but its not what it used be. "Family Guy" and "American Dad" are at least IMO as strong as the "Simpsons" and that is not saying much. Frankly I have been much more impressed with the Live action Comedy CBS and expecially NBC have been doing lately. Fox has lost its edge.
Notch is a gun is perfectly normal, many long guns ie, a rifle or a shotgun have wooden butts even contemporary ones. Many hunters will carve a small notch there when they take a prize.
Drivers in user space sure is great. Now when my video driver has issues, which is about twice a week, the screen blinks 3 times. Between each blink Vista tells me in a little ballon that it reasted my video driver. Well great except that after the 3rd time it BSODs anyway. Keep in mind this is a brand new HP right out of the box. Factory image the only things I have installed are litterally firefox and MS Office.
I take it your comment implies there was something wrong with it? Lets look at if from a perspective of communication they way we might critique any work of language print or otherwise. I will pose the questions to you but answer from my perspective?
Did you experience any difficulty or distraction while trying to acquire and understand the message the author was trying to send?
I did not.
Did the presentation cause confusion or ambiguity of any kind?
I don't think it did.
This one is a little machine specific, did you have to use any special tools or software such as specific browsers, decoders, certain display resolutions?
Nope not me and it looks like it would render fine even for someone using links, but I did not try.
Has the media proven robust?
Well its a website and so far its stood up to slashdot traffic, so its fairly tough, probably thanks to its small size. It would be easy to cache for the likes of Google to sense it has no external files, like css sheets, graphics etc.
All and all I think it was an excellent solution to for making the information available that as the author wanted to do so and deliver it to a broad audience. Its a real shame more of the web is not like that. Ok now go back to your visual studio Silverlight, script ridden abortion now.
I actally said something similar to a Scientologist once. It was something like this:
My God is omnipotent, he needs no starship because he is the creator of the very heavens Xenu's ships fly around in that is if they exist.
It was caused by a short-sighted government who refused to let the utility expand and maintain their generating capacity and infrastructure and now got caught with their pants down. Umm that is exactly an Olduvai type problem; the theory says that people will be unable or unwilling to invest enough to maintain the electrical infrustructure. Sounds like what happened there to me.
Those high capacity alternatives don't seem to be materializing. Uselessly small power is being generated with solar thermal; nobody has built an orbital microwave system of any kind and I don't think a productive fusion reactor exists either. In the mean time; we see a large span of time from about 1980 through today where our energy production does not outpace population growth for any meaning period. We have also seen major unexpected blackouts here in the States that impacted millions of people and lasted days. We have also seen rolling blackouts out West again because people were unwilling / unable to invest in the infrustucture. Olduvai predicts we should be entering the period of decline in the very imediate future like the next 5 years.
I am not sure we are really about to fall off the tiping point like Olduvai says we should be; there are also a number of more optimistic models that seem to predict the past as well as Olduvai does it. The Olduvai model does however fit past and current events so its as good a model as any at the moment. Once the decline starts its very steep if the Olduvai model is correct there will not be time to stop it with any of the ideas you mentioned.
This is a very often ignored point by people pushing all this digital tech, TV included. With analog you very very often can get at least something. It might be very sub optimal but if you repeat yourself enough you probably can get your message through. With digital when its weak its gone. Now sure you have a much wider range of reception + noise conditions where there is no preceptiable degredation but I am not sure that is a good trade.
We are still using HTTP and FTP, who is to say that BT will not just slowly mature like those? Mature is an interesting description; I would have said turned into cancer ridden zombies.
Yes but if encryption leads people to keep records they would not have kept or destroyed otherwise it could pose a risk if its eventually cracked.
Its like Mom always said; never write something down without expecting someone else to eventually read it. If its dangerous or hurtful information it should be destroyed. If its really important keep it in the only place its really safe your head.
Business are keeping more and more customer information. Information is leaked all the time stored encrypted or not. Encryption is likely to give an often false impression of security. People may think they are safely storing facts that will only be available to them and their organization and customers might end up really unhappy if they discover they were wrong about that some time.
I suspect engergy consumption per passengers transported is better with MAGLEV. It certainly is for a regular train. If MAGLEV gives you back your speed without increasing the engergy demands a but that could be a big win in economic terms. Jet fule is not cheap; but people pay to fly rather then ride the rails or road for the time savings.
make them do things for you because of fear or awe Right up until they decided you were a which, worlock, some sort of demon, or got to likeing a little too much and figured you'd be a great sacrifice to the gods.
I think we have come a long way. I think in the last 100 years we have come an especially long way. What we do need to remember though is even our giants stood on the sholders of giants. We all want to think for some reason the men and women of are time are the first to acomplish anything much beyond rubbing two sticks together but that is hardlay the case.
Eninstein never could have come up with relativity without being able to acruartely measure time. Those "clock makers" from the past gave him that gift; they were in their time inovative. They exploited the phisics of harmonic motion wether knowing implicitly or explictly. The artonomers solved problems of optics. Neither could of those groups could have done their work without the artisan metalergists and glass experts before them.
These things seem trivial to us only because everything in our world uses them. Before they were know each was a giant leap in technology; of no less importance then the Neuclear reactor or the Space shuttle.
Loadable modules have nothing to do with micro/monolithic design. In a micro kernel those modules would have their own memory space, their own pid like identifier assigned by the monitor, and be doing all their communication with the rest of the kernel via some IPC process.
When you load a module in Linux, it lives in the same memory space as the rest of the kernel and can freely exchange data with the rest of the kernel via writing directly shared data structures. Modules don't give you a less monolithic kernel, what the do is allow you to determine what the monolith looks like at run time instead of compile time.
Exactly look at any ERP system like JDE One World or similar. You find it mostly stores currency values as numeric with no decimal values and simply works with all values multiplied by 10000.
I really think it would have been better for Microsoft as a company if the DOJ had broken them up. As it is today everthing in the office automation, information processing, and home entertainment spaces that can be done with a computer(or network of small computing devices) pretty much as been or has been at least talked about. Those are Microsofts core spaces.
Microsoft can no longer do anything without the specture of Anti-trust law looming. I think its caused them a great deal of uncertainty in terms of product roadmap and generally taken away from their focus. The only products of theirs that seem to be improving are Exchange and Windows Server itself which are becoming functionally more like the Unix and VMS systems that inspired them in the first place. They are certainly not doin anything new; because their ain't much new to do, and skipping logical points of intergation to avoid stepping on toes that might go crying to the DOA.
Don't get me wrong I hate what Microsoft has done to the industry as much as the next Slashdoter. I also think two or three Microsofts would more then likely suck all the oxygen out room just as much as the one monolith does; but at least we might see some real progress.
Over the last six to eight years we have gotten just about exactly nothing from Microsoft of real value. Oh and don't say DotNet was inovative. It took Microsoft two years to figure out what DotNet was themselves and its not new either. Sandboxed byte code interpreters existed already; JAVA as well as others. Ok so Microsoft made some more compilers for other languagues targeting their byte code. Big deal its was an obvious move, anyone wanting to invest the man hours could have done the same thing with Java; and if nobody had well CPUs have gotten fast. Pure interpreters would have filled the space.
Don't go abusing your body assuming you'll be able to get a new heart any time soon. Of course, as late as the mid 1950s reputable engineers scoffed at the ideas of flights to the moon. This could come together faster than you can imagine. It could but I still don't see why exactly I would want to take that chance. I mean it might not be ready in time for me which would result in death. If it is ready in time, then you are still looking at heart transplant surgery which sounds umm, painful and expensive amoung other things. I will stick with the parent posters ounce of prevention mentality, thank you very much.
I am now recognized at parties as "that crazy motherfucker who did a shot in his ass. Hey girls, come meet this guy". Yep that's exactly the reputation I want preceeding me when meeting girls.
I think you can probably put together a sound system these days for about 5K that is able to do what you prescribe. High quality Home Audio has gotten much much cheaper then it was ten years ago(I am to youg to make a statment on thing much before that). You can buy equipment that will spec out every bit as good as Harman Kardon Reciver for which they want $1000 alone for around $300, and a good belt driven, linear traking trun table does not have to cost as much as you might think. You will will spend some money on a cartrige and styli set, and you do need a good pre amp. That pre-amp is not likely to break the bank. You can find lots of circuits online with supposedly very good charactistics noise wise. Build two of those (one for each channel) put them in a nice metal project box and ground that it will do just fine. Between DigiKey and Radio Shack you can anything you need.
This leaves you with about 3K for monitors. I have not purcahsed any of those recently so I don't know what they go for these days but I should think that will cover it.
Its a theory, not a law. Evolution is unproven, it should be presented that way. A theory is an explanation that seems to fit the known set of observations. Evolution is a good theory and lots of people are confident that that is how life got to the state it exists here on earth today. That is how a responsible science instructor should present it.
Lots don't though, many present it as "this is how it happened", which is IMHO every bit as unscientific and wrong as the literalists/fundamentalists refusing to allow it to be taught.
I would think as a literalists/fundamentalists you would really want your children taught as much evolution as possible at least after they have been taught that its just a theory; but a well supported one; and what it means that something is a theory. After all It might be useful to understand your opponents arguments no matter how incorrect you believe them to be.
I know I would be much more impressed with the opinion of someone who posses and can demonstrate expert knowledge about an opposing theoretical model and still thinks their explanation is better then I would be by someone who just says may explanation is better and knows little about the alternate prevailing thinking.
In an intellectually honest debate with accurately defined terms there is plenty of room still for both evolution and Genesis.
hell we even banned it for a few years for incredibly stupid reasons. Umm read some history. We had terrible problems due to alcohol in this country leading up to prohibition. Crime and domestic abuse(spouses and children) were very common. Durring prohibition these declined by something in the area of fifty percent. Fortunitly the did not again rise to the levels there were at prior. Yes prohibition created a number of new problems; nobdy disputes that. You can argue it was an unjustified incursion on peoples rights but the temperance movement did infact acomplish much of what it set out to do with prohibition. Its a trade off and its not nearly as simple as just prohibition == bad.
What is perhaps a more interesting question to ask is, what about late 19th and early 20th century American culture caused us to have such terible problems with this things which were largely resolved with the reduction of availible alcohol.
Although this comes dangerously close to a might makes right argument I would also make this statement. Before you slam our puritanical roots and the elements of that that still prosist in our thinking consider this. This culteral background has server to reasonably well manage the most economically viable and influential nation the world has ever know for more the two hundred years now. As a people who get to particiape in the political process we have ourselves consistently elevated those people to power who support and persist in that same thinking.
Problem is , today you are called a nut for questioning the puritanical ideals. I am pretty sure people who questioned it in the past were called "nuts" as well. In fact that is probably much more the case then is today. Most people in our society, feel that people should be free to persue life, liberty, and happiness right up until those persuits deny those things to others. If large portions of the population are intoxicated beyond self control a large part of the time I suspect you and I both would be unhappy; so yes we do impose certain restrictions on certin know to be problematic behaviors.
If you're intoxicated you cannot consent Actually thats not true at least in Ohio. Provided you knowingly allowed yourself to become intoxicated, ie you were not drugged, or decived about something being an acholoic beverage, you are responsible for your actions and decisions while intoxicated. Almost every college kid is warned about this at freshmen orientation.
If you get liquered up and someone takes advantage of you its your fault in the eyes of the law. Now other statitory exceptions may apply like if you sell me you beater car while I am drunk, and its a lemon, I still have lemon law protection and such. There is no exception for concentual sex between adults though. If he/she is drunk and you get them to consent to sex, its legal. I would call you an asshat as would most decent human beings but we can't put you away for it.
If you have ever been personally responsible for 25+ servers you would know that after three years it "really is time." the failure rate of those systems spikes. Sure many of us have had that box at home that has run perfectly for 7 years. I have certainly and I have certainly seen old boxen like that working happily in a production system as well.
I also know that SCSI disks and back planes seem to start to just die after 36months or so; no not all at once but at a much greater rate then their younger counter parts. The difference is infact large enough that depending on what application the server hosts and how important it is to your business I think its very possible that the risks out weigh the cost of a new box. Its also worth note that its much easier to migrate when if something goes wrong you know you can just power up the old box, rather then oh shit the old box has two bad disks in that array if I loose another heads will roll type situation unless this new box works an works now; type situation.
I have done both and I know its usually worth buying a new box before you need it.
I agree with you in that I think its a terrible crime against our society that Thought Police and politically correct elitists prevent us largely from having an intelligent debate and discussion of this topics. There may or may not be merit in Shockleys work on the subject we don't have the information and we can't export it because some people have a vested interest in the outcome and are afraid they might not like the actually results if they were ever learned.
I don't know if Shockley was a racist. I don't think thinking along the lines, when you have the support of facts like census data and the like makes you a racist. Now if you don't bother to look at the facts and or your only interest in the subject is to support prejudiced views you already then you have issues. The truth is who a person is today, their deeds, the abilities they can demonstrait are all that matter. There are after all exceptions to every rule. To make any judments about an individual by any other means is foolish.
Its one thing to study the matter of eugenics its another to act on your conclusions. Its interesting your user name, after all it would be a sad day for humanity if we found out we acidently sterilized all the people resistant to the next plegue(Dlkdeath). How can we really be sure what genes will be best for future conditions? Its also worth noteing that at nopoint in human history when eugenics has been tried has it not been currpted into something that is dispicable and designed not to better society but to elevate the select few. Maybe humans just can't be that objective, who knows maybe its in the genes.
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"The Simpsons" are your for real? That show has been hit and miss for the last 8 years or so. It holds its viewership today because its more of an Institution then anything else. Honestly "The Simpsions" deliver some great stuff even today but its few and far between. It was much more inteligent in pre 2000 or there abouts then it is today. Mostly its the same tired jokes over and over again now, with names replace with whatever is popular this week, often these jokes don't even really fit anymore.
I still watch but its not what it used be. "Family Guy" and "American Dad" are at least IMO as strong as the "Simpsons" and that is not saying much. Frankly I have been much more impressed with the Live action Comedy CBS and expecially NBC have been doing lately. Fox has lost its edge.
Notch is a gun is perfectly normal, many long guns ie, a rifle or a shotgun have wooden butts even contemporary ones. Many hunters will carve a small notch there when they take a prize.
Drivers in user space sure is great. Now when my video driver has issues, which is about twice a week, the screen blinks 3 times. Between each blink Vista tells me in a little ballon that it reasted my video driver. Well great except that after the 3rd time it BSODs anyway. Keep in mind this is a brand new HP right out of the box. Factory image the only things I have installed are litterally firefox and MS Office.
No hacks no new drivers, just sucks.
I take it your comment implies there was something wrong with it? Lets look at if from a perspective of communication they way we might critique any work of language print or otherwise. I will pose the questions to you but answer from my perspective?
Did you experience any difficulty or distraction while trying to acquire and understand the message the author was trying to send?
I did not.
Did the presentation cause confusion or ambiguity of any kind?
I don't think it did.
This one is a little machine specific, did you have to use any special tools or software such as specific browsers, decoders, certain display resolutions?
Nope not me and it looks like it would render fine even for someone using links, but I did not try.
Has the media proven robust?
Well its a website and so far its stood up to slashdot traffic, so its fairly tough, probably thanks to its small size. It would be easy to cache for the likes of Google to sense it has no external files, like css sheets, graphics etc.
All and all I think it was an excellent solution to for making the information available that as the author wanted to do so and deliver it to a broad audience. Its a real shame more of the web is not like that. Ok now go back to your visual studio Silverlight, script ridden abortion now.
Those high capacity alternatives don't seem to be materializing. Uselessly small power is being generated with solar thermal; nobody has built an orbital microwave system of any kind and I don't think a productive fusion reactor exists either. In the mean time; we see a large span of time from about 1980 through today where our energy production does not outpace population growth for any meaning period. We have also seen major unexpected blackouts here in the States that impacted millions of people and lasted days. We have also seen rolling blackouts out West again because people were unwilling / unable to invest in the infrustucture. Olduvai predicts we should be entering the period of decline in the very imediate future like the next 5 years.
I am not sure we are really about to fall off the tiping point like Olduvai says we should be; there are also a number of more optimistic models that seem to predict the past as well as Olduvai does it. The Olduvai model does however fit past and current events so its as good a model as any at the moment. Once the decline starts its very steep if the Olduvai model is correct there will not be time to stop it with any of the ideas you mentioned.
This is a very often ignored point by people pushing all this digital tech, TV included. With analog you very very often can get at least something. It might be very sub optimal but if you repeat yourself enough you probably can get your message through. With digital when its weak its gone. Now sure you have a much wider range of reception + noise conditions where there is no preceptiable degredation but I am not sure that is a good trade.
Yes but if encryption leads people to keep records they would not have kept or destroyed otherwise it could pose a risk if its eventually cracked.
Its like Mom always said; never write something down without expecting someone else to eventually read it. If its dangerous or hurtful information it should be destroyed. If its really important keep it in the only place its really safe your head.
Business are keeping more and more customer information. Information is leaked all the time stored encrypted or not. Encryption is likely to give an often false impression of security. People may think they are safely storing facts that will only be available to them and their organization and customers might end up really unhappy if they discover they were wrong about that some time.
I suspect engergy consumption per passengers transported is better with MAGLEV. It certainly is for a regular train. If MAGLEV gives you back your speed without increasing the engergy demands a but that could be a big win in economic terms. Jet fule is not cheap; but people pay to fly rather then ride the rails or road for the time savings.
I think we have come a long way. I think in the last 100 years we have come an especially long way. What we do need to remember though is even our giants stood on the sholders of giants. We all want to think for some reason the men and women of are time are the first to acomplish anything much beyond rubbing two sticks together but that is hardlay the case.
Eninstein never could have come up with relativity without being able to acruartely measure time. Those "clock makers" from the past gave him that gift; they were in their time inovative. They exploited the phisics of harmonic motion wether knowing implicitly or explictly. The artonomers solved problems of optics. Neither could of those groups could have done their work without the artisan metalergists and glass experts before them.
These things seem trivial to us only because everything in our world uses them. Before they were know each was a giant leap in technology; of no less importance then the Neuclear reactor or the Space shuttle.
umm, wrong....
Loadable modules have nothing to do with micro/monolithic design. In a micro kernel those modules would have their own memory space, their own pid like identifier assigned by the monitor, and be doing all their communication with the rest of the kernel via some IPC process.
When you load a module in Linux, it lives in the same memory space as the rest of the kernel and can freely exchange data with the rest of the kernel via writing directly shared data structures. Modules don't give you a less monolithic kernel, what the do is allow you to determine what the monolith looks like at run time instead of compile time.
Exactly look at any ERP system like JDE One World or similar. You find it mostly stores currency values as numeric with no decimal values and simply works with all values multiplied by 10000.
Its really a nice way to solve the problem.
I really think it would have been better for Microsoft as a company if the DOJ had broken them up. As it is today everthing in the office automation, information processing, and home entertainment spaces that can be done with a computer(or network of small computing devices) pretty much as been or has been at least talked about. Those are Microsofts core spaces.
Microsoft can no longer do anything without the specture of Anti-trust law looming. I think its caused them a great deal of uncertainty in terms of product roadmap and generally taken away from their focus. The only products of theirs that seem to be improving are Exchange and Windows Server itself which are becoming functionally more like the Unix and VMS systems that inspired them in the first place. They are certainly not doin anything new; because their ain't much new to do, and skipping logical points of intergation to avoid stepping on toes that might go crying to the DOA.
Don't get me wrong I hate what Microsoft has done to the industry as much as the next Slashdoter. I also think two or three Microsofts would more then likely suck all the oxygen out room just as much as the one monolith does; but at least we might see some real progress.
Over the last six to eight years we have gotten just about exactly nothing from Microsoft of real value. Oh and don't say DotNet was inovative. It took Microsoft two years to figure out what DotNet was themselves and its not new either. Sandboxed byte code interpreters existed already; JAVA as well as others. Ok so Microsoft made some more compilers for other languagues targeting their byte code. Big deal its was an obvious move, anyone wanting to invest the man hours could have done the same thing with Java; and if nobody had well CPUs have gotten fast. Pure interpreters would have filled the space.
Well,
I think you can probably put together a sound system these days for about 5K that is able to do what you prescribe. High quality Home Audio has gotten much much cheaper then it was ten years ago(I am to youg to make a statment on thing much before that). You can buy equipment that will spec out every bit as good as Harman Kardon Reciver for which they want $1000 alone for around $300, and a good belt driven, linear traking trun table does not have to cost as much as you might think. You will will spend some money on a cartrige and styli set, and you do need a good pre amp. That pre-amp is not likely to break the bank. You can find lots of circuits online with supposedly very good charactistics noise wise. Build two of those (one for each channel) put them in a nice metal project box and ground that it will do just fine. Between DigiKey and Radio Shack you can anything you need.
This leaves you with about 3K for monitors. I have not purcahsed any of those recently so I don't know what they go for these days but I should think that will cover it.
Its a theory, not a law. Evolution is unproven, it should be presented that way. A theory is an explanation that seems to fit the known set of observations. Evolution is a good theory and lots of people are confident that that is how life got to the state it exists here on earth today. That is how a responsible science instructor should present it.
Lots don't though, many present it as "this is how it happened", which is IMHO every bit as unscientific and wrong as the literalists/fundamentalists refusing to allow it to be taught.
I would think as a literalists/fundamentalists you would really want your children taught as much evolution as possible at least after they have been taught that its just a theory; but a well supported one; and what it means that something is a theory. After all It might be useful to understand your opponents arguments no matter how incorrect you believe them to be.
I know I would be much more impressed with the opinion of someone who posses and can demonstrate expert knowledge about an opposing theoretical model and still thinks their explanation is better then I would be by someone who just says may explanation is better and knows little about the alternate prevailing thinking.
In an intellectually honest debate with accurately defined terms there is plenty of room still for both evolution and Genesis.
What is perhaps a more interesting question to ask is, what about late 19th and early 20th century American culture caused us to have such terible problems with this things which were largely resolved with the reduction of availible alcohol.
Although this comes dangerously close to a might makes right argument I would also make this statement. Before you slam our puritanical roots and the elements of that that still prosist in our thinking consider this. This culteral background has server to reasonably well manage the most economically viable and influential nation the world has ever know for more the two hundred years now. As a people who get to particiape in the political process we have ourselves consistently elevated those people to power who support and persist in that same thinking. Problem is , today you are called a nut for questioning the puritanical ideals. I am pretty sure people who questioned it in the past were called "nuts" as well. In fact that is probably much more the case then is today. Most people in our society, feel that people should be free to persue life, liberty, and happiness right up until those persuits deny those things to others. If large portions of the population are intoxicated beyond self control a large part of the time I suspect you and I both would be unhappy; so yes we do impose certain restrictions on certin know to be problematic behaviors.
But what if you have a Progress database on it?
If you get liquered up and someone takes advantage of you its your fault in the eyes of the law. Now other statitory exceptions may apply like if you sell me you beater car while I am drunk, and its a lemon, I still have lemon law protection and such. There is no exception for concentual sex between adults though. If he/she is drunk and you get them to consent to sex, its legal. I would call you an asshat as would most decent human beings but we can't put you away for it.
If you have ever been personally responsible for 25+ servers you would know that after three years it "really is time." the failure rate of those systems spikes. Sure many of us have had that box at home that has run perfectly for 7 years. I have certainly and I have certainly seen old boxen like that working happily in a production system as well.
I also know that SCSI disks and back planes seem to start to just die after 36months or so; no not all at once but at a much greater rate then their younger counter parts. The difference is infact large enough that depending on what application the server hosts and how important it is to your business I think its very possible that the risks out weigh the cost of a new box. Its also worth note that its much easier to migrate when if something goes wrong you know you can just power up the old box, rather then oh shit the old box has two bad disks in that array if I loose another heads will roll type situation unless this new box works an works now; type situation.
I have done both and I know its usually worth buying a new box before you need it.
our return to the age of sail. Even if it is a little higher tech then first time around.
I agree with you in that I think its a terrible crime against our society that Thought Police and politically correct elitists prevent us largely from having an intelligent debate and discussion of this topics. There may or may not be merit in Shockleys work on the subject we don't have the information and we can't export it because some people have a vested interest in the outcome and are afraid they might not like the actually results if they were ever learned.
I don't know if Shockley was a racist. I don't think thinking along the lines, when you have the support of facts like census data and the like makes you a racist. Now if you don't bother to look at the facts and or your only interest in the subject is to support prejudiced views you already then you have issues. The truth is who a person is today, their deeds, the abilities they can demonstrait are all that matter. There are after all exceptions to every rule. To make any judments about an individual by any other means is foolish.
Its one thing to study the matter of eugenics its another to act on your conclusions. Its interesting your user name, after all it would be a sad day for humanity if we found out we acidently sterilized all the people resistant to the next plegue(Dlkdeath). How can we really be sure what genes will be best for future conditions? Its also worth noteing that at nopoint in human history when eugenics has been tried has it not been currpted into something that is dispicable and designed not to better society but to elevate the select few. Maybe humans just can't be that objective, who knows maybe its in the genes.